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Extract from the Osoyoos Travel Guides:
Beyond Keremeos the road climbs 46km, eventually unfolding a dramatic view, far below, of
OSOYOOS
- meaning "gathered together" - and a sizeable lake surrounded by bare, ochre hills. Descending, you enter one of Canada's strangest landscapes - a bona fide desert of half-bare, scrub-covered hills, sand, lizards, cactus, snakes and Canada's lowest average rainfall (around 25cm per year). Temperatures are regularly 10C higher than in Nelson, less than a morning's drive away, enabling exotic fruit like bananas and pomegranates to be grown and prompting Osoyoos to declare itself the "Spanish Capital of Canada". The house...
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